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Fiery Cannonade

Instant2 generic manaRed mana

A symmetrical sweeper with a tribal exemption is an old trick, but here the exemption is the whole pitch: the Pirate clause turns what would be a neutral board reset into an asymmetrical one for the deck built to use it. The two damage is calibrated to clear early aggressive boards (the one- and two-toughness creatures that crowd the bottom of a curve) while sparing your own crew, so the card reads as a one-sided wrath in the matchups where it matters and a mutual one everywhere else. The instant speed is what gives it teeth: you can hold it through a combat step and fire it as a blowout when an opponent commits attackers, rather than spending it proactively on a sorcery turn the way Pyroclasm or Anger of the Gods asks. That timing window turns a clunky board-clear into a combat trick that happens to hit the whole table. Outside the tribe it was printed to reward, it is a perfectly serviceable red sweeper against go-wide aggro, with the Pirate line sitting inert. The design depends entirely on stocking enough of the exempt creature type to make the asymmetry real; absent that, you are simply playing a two-damage instant-speed Pyroclasm that occasionally inconveniences you less than it inconveniences them.

Fiery Cannonade (xln)
XLN · #143uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $0.93
Oracle Text

Rules text

Fiery Cannonade deals 2 damage to each non-Pirate creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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